parlous

adj.

1. 恶劣的；动荡的；危险的
   very bad and very uncertain; dangerous

1. ADJ-GRADED 恶劣的；危险的
   If something is in a parlous state, it is in a bad or dangerous condition.
   1. ...the parlous state of our economy.
      我们经济的严峻形势

1. The incident graphically illustrates how parlous their position is
   这一事件生动地证明了他们目前的地位多么岌岌可危。
2. But this year, thanks to both the parlous state of government finances and renewed attempts to make universities compete among themselves for students, the landscape is significantly different.
   但在今年，由于政府财政不容乐观，政府再次尝试促使高校间为生源展开竞争，如今情况完全不同于以往了。
3. Given the parlous state of the European car market, this would not seem a sensible moment to launch a new car brand.
   鉴于欧洲汽车市场的糟糕现状，当前或许并不是推出一个新汽车品牌的合适时点。
4. The alternative might be to cede control to the UAW, the second-biggest shareholder, which is hardly blameless for GM's current parlous state.
   可供选择的余地也许把权利让与第二大股东&汽车联合工会，对当前通用公司的危急状况，工会几乎不受指责。
5. In spite of the parlous state of the US financial system and the political questions new overseas investments might raise, US banks remain keen to expand their operations in China.
   尽管美国金融体系陷于危险境地，并且新海外投资可能会带来政治问题，但美国的银行还是渴望在中国扩展业务。
6. The parlous state of China's health-care system has also given a powerful boost to religion.
   危险的中国医疗体系也加速宗教力量的发展。
7. If it were ever to default, the result would be disaster for virtually all other governments, many of which are in a more parlous fiscal state than the US in any case.
   倘若它决定违约，其结果对其它所有政府几乎都是灾难性的许多政府的财政状况都比美国更危险。
8. For Pakistan, a country with parlous public finances already forced to hold back on a planned purchase of three German submarines, China offers a cheaper option and long-term credit.
   因公共财政困境，巴基斯坦此前被迫终止购买三艘德国潜艇。中国为其提供了更廉价的选择和长期信贷。
9. It is politically impossible for rich country governments to write cheques for any significant amount of money with their finances in as parlous a state as they are today especially in the US, which has turned its back on a global climate agreement before.
   在富国财政处于当今这种拮据状态的情况下，要这些国家的政府开出金额可观的支票，在政治上是不可能的，尤其是在以前曾经拒绝接受全球气候协定的美国。
10. There have five rooms two parlous and two toilets.
    在那里有五个房间二危险的和二厕所。
11. The parlous state of the world economy could mean more shipping companies following Eastwind Maritime, which went bankrupt in June.
    在危机四伏的世界经济环境中，更多的船运公司有可能步美国东风海事公司的后尘，后者已在今年六月份破产。
12. A parlous journey on stormy seas.
    在风暴海洋上的一次危险的旅行。
13. But things are not as parlous as they sound.
    不过事情其实并没有听上去那么危险。
14. What is even more difficult to understand is why the IMF is now also proposing that Greece should apply more of the same policy prescriptions that have brought its economy to its current parlous state.
    更加难以理解的是，imf为何现在还在提议，希腊应更多地采用令该国经济陷入目前危险境地的那些政策处方。
15. In other words, I am in a parlous state, I am getting old, and there's nothing to be done about it.
    换句话说，我正处于危险的状态，正在变老，并且无法挽回。
16. Despite the parlous state of the roads, which are littered with the debris of head-on collisions, he does not grumble much.
    尽管路况十分危险，常常会有车辆迎头相撞留下的残骸，他却并没有什么抱怨。
17. Dangerous waters; a parlous journey on stormy seas; a perilous voyage across the Atlantic in a small boat; the precarious life of an undersea diver; dangerous surgery followed by a touch-and-go recovery.
    危险海域；在风大浪急的海面的危险旅程；用一艘小船穿越大西洋的航行是很危险的；一名海下潜水员的危险生活；危险的手术后是简略的恢复。
18. Through analyzing the hadron current tensor for the deep inelastic scattering of leptons from the quasi-free nucleon, we obtained the ralation of transverse momenta of parlous to their longitudinal momentum distributions in the quasi-free nucleon.
    通过对轻子在准自由核子上深度非弹性散射的强子张量进行分析，建立了准自由核子内部分子横向动量与相应部分子纵向动量分布间的关系；
19. With the aid of the parton-evolution mechanism, the equations determining the longitudinal momentum distributions of parlous in the quasi-free nucleon are presented;
    借助部分子演化机制，给出了确定准自由核子内部分子纵向动量分布的方程组；
20. In the 1970s, DFI developed in the parlous state of financial relations, which is considered as a vital tool to avoid risks, with the breakdown of the Bretton Woods System, the suddenly-erupted worldwide oil crisis, and the violently fluctuated interest rates and exchange rate.
    20世纪70年代，在布雷顿森林体系解体、世界性石油危机爆发、利率和汇率剧烈波动的异常经济环境下，衍生金融工具作为规避风险的重要工具逐渐发展起来。

adj

1. fraught with danger
   1. dangerous waters
   2. a parlous journey on stormy seas
   3. a perilous voyage across the Atlantic in a small boat
   4. the precarious life of an undersea diver
   5. dangerous surgery followed by a touch-and-go recovery

   Synonym:    perilousprecarioustouch-and-go